Geogaddi: The Poll

the stuff before geogaddi I just love listening to. the stuff after I don’t. bring on adolescence.

their overall sound got uglier and less pleasant once they got better gear or whatever. and lost character. everything just sounded more and more sterilized, like the synths became a slick VST of whatever they did before. all the haze disappeared.

Vs. artists repeating what they did twenty years ago and becoming progressively less relevant.

This is awfully pseudy but fuckit - earlier I happened to be half listening to a podcast in which they were talking about h4untology and 4ccelerationism and... something about how the preoccupation with a haunted past or the past haunting the present was an intriguing and fun response to perceived stasis but innevitably ran out of steam (so to speak). This tendency that BoC was a cool bellwether for therefore ended, certain headless horsemen still being flogged notwithstanding. So that was culturally a precursor or 'adolescence' if you will for, well, whatever it was that came or is still to come. To BoCs real credit they were quick to recognise this for themselves and take different approaches.

yeah I see what you mean. It’s a catch-22 cliche, right? Repeat yourself and risk diluting the magic, try something new and risk losing the magic.

my hot take is that they stopped enjoying or being excited by making music some time around geogaddi.

Sad to see Campfire still being dismissed 15 years later.

Don't think anyone's dismissing it, just seems to be most people's least favourite.

how did I manage to miss the opening track to their 2001 ATP show? (I somehow thought it was a sound check/intro kinda thing, but it's like their answer to Eno's An Ascent)

https://youtu.be/fjrPpzNeNZ0

(don't read the comments)

one of my friends recently casually mentioned that he saw that show and I was pretty near speechless with envy

their Warp10 set is worth a listen too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGQ6Sp2JuPA

the devil is in the details

Thanks, it is! xp

the gyroscope devil gysroscope is gyroscope in gyroscope the gyroscope. details

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

hmmmm

DAWN CHORUS? What even happens in that song?

Plenty. It may be the only track I can easily conjure in my head from the title alone!

Sending a team of lawyers to rescind the count

Yes, this is an irregular result.